3.7.3 Gaps, limitations and opportunities

The impact and risk analysis allows governments, industry and the community to focus on areas that are potentially impacted when making regulatory, water management and planning decisions. Due to the conservative nature of the modelling, the greatest confidence in results is for those areas that are very unlikely to be impacted. Where potential impacts have been identified, further work is required to determine the presence and magnitude of impacts to ecosystems.

Extending this Assessment should focus on incorporating surface water modelling and representing surface water – groundwater interactions. Key knowledge gaps identified in the following sections detail where confidence in this Assessment can be improved through further work.